[Arkinsaw]

So many are dying while clearing explosives. In my view, if they know about the explosives beforehand then there should be no way a US soldier dies from them.

These things should be blown up by an RPG or something from range. Not by sending an infantryman who is not a bomb disposal expert to look at the bomb.

We had one where a soldier died trying to remove a bomb from a telephone pole. Newsflash: Iraqi telephone poles are not that important...blow it up and then move on.

[areafiftyone]

Isn't there a way to send a robot out to distroy the explosives?

[Blood of Tyrants]

I suspect that in many cases, simply detonating them remotely is not an option. What if the EOD was tied to a bridge support or next to a school or hospital?

However, I agree, is it not possible to place a large container that will vent the energy straight up (such as a large steel pipe) over it and then drop a C4 charge in it?

[archy]

"We had one where a soldier died trying to remove a bomb from a telephone pole."

Indeed we did.

SSG Kim A. [Fahnstalk] Voelz, EOD, R.I.P.